OMG I HAVE REACHED CH-16 OF YOUR BEAUTIFUL, I-HAVE-FALLEN-IN-LOVE-AW-FUCK, MAGNIFICENT MAMMOTH OF A FIC "ON TOP OF THE BONE PILE" !!!! I read it on this app called Lithium so I can read all in one-go and so I can feel like I'm reading a book But but BUT I WOULD LOVE TO PERSONALLY TEXT YOU MY EXCITEMENT ABOUT EACH CHAPTER THAT I READ (if that's something's you're okay with too!)
You're such AN AMAZING WRITER AND I LOVE HOW YOU WRITE OUR BELOVED SKELEBAES I CANNOT EXPRESS HOW MUCH I AM ABSOLUTELY IN LOVE WITH YOUR FIC kakdkdjkfkdlddjjddkddk
I'm so happy to hear people are still discovering and falling in love with my writing! Thank you!!! 💚
I wouldn't mind if you messaged me here on Tumblr about your reactions if you're unable to comment on the story in the app you're using. It would be fun to hear about it as you go! 🥰
so i was reading back on on top of the bone pile recently, and i came across the chapter where red pretty much rapes the reader. she accepts his apology, lets red off with a slap on the wrist and they go on with life. why did you put this in your story? that's not realistic at all and if she gave a real response she would have never talked to him again. i know it's fanfiction, and you can write whatever you like, but... it's just really really odd.
Honestly? At that point in my journey of writing, Bone Pile was still a highly experimental story for me. I had never written anything long form like it before outside of essays in college. A lot chapters were me playing around with an idea or experience of mine or someone close to me and working it out in a 'what if?' senario. I was taking situations and seeing what I could do with it in terms of tension, description, emotion, and movement.
I agree that it's not a good chapter, but it wasn't until waaaay down the line of writing that I thought up a better narrative that would require me to rewrite the entire story. I wasn't going to do that so it stayed.
There are many parts of the story that I don't like and would have done differently if I had the writing experience that I do now. However, it is a very long story and it's also a fanfiction so I gave myself permission to let the bad parts be bad. I can do better in the next story.
Does this excuse Red's actions? No, it's still non-con and he was in the wrong.
Does it make read's responce appropriate? No, she should have dropped his ass and never looked back.
Am I going to change it? Also no, the story is what it is in all of its mediocrity. I have other projects I am working on that I am learning from just like I did with Bone Pile.
We are at the end of this story! Thank you to everyone who stuck it out! I hope it brought you some form of entertainment.
I'm gonna miss writing about these boys, I really could go on forever but I think I should save some tropes and moments for other stories.
I do have a short story to tell of G and his adventures after leaving the skeleton household. Not sure when I will post it but it'll be some time after I get more than vague plot points down and actual chapters written.
Also I do plan to post the Buried in Bones short chapters at some point. If you want me to write something to fill in a fantasy or skipped scene. Let me know!
Enjoy the end of On Top of the Bone Pile and I'll see you in the next story.
Can you show examples of the skeletons' weapons that they have in OTOTBP?
Oooh yes, talk to me about weaponry! I'm not a great artist when it comes to drawing but I'll share the concept pics I saved for my own reference while writing. I think I have the right artists credited here, if I'm wrong, please correct me.
This got long so all weapons are under the cut.
Sans: Gaster Blaster
Our classic boy has his classic weapon, the Gaster Blaster that we see in the game. Long range to keep an enemy at a distance and hands free so Sans can concentrate on dodging. I didn't change anything up for this one, just straight copy and paste idea.
~Photo came from Teahub. I didn't see a link to the creator
Papyrus: Bone Staff
Also a pretty basic weapon. Papyrus doesn't need anything fancy to take someone down. He usually fights like we see in the game, by sending bones at his opponent from afar. But if hand to hand becomes necessary, out comes the staff!
Papyrus likes a little flair to his bone-work so he can shrink or grow his weapon to his liking, though the staff is usually about shoulder height on him. Occasionally he will wield two shorter bone clubs (about the length of your arm) instead of the single staff but the look is the same.
~Photo is a reference from the game.
Blue: War Hammer
Blue wields a two-handed war hammer. Having the face of a Sans, his weapon has the classic blaster skull, but he attacks like a Papyrus. Which is usually up close and personal fighting, though he retains the Sans trait of being incredibly difficult to hit.
Blue is small and very nimble, but his strength is nothing to sneeze at. You do NOT want to be on the receiving end of this hammer. Blunt-force trauma on the front, armor piercing spikes on the back, just like the French used to make.
~Photo by N.I.C.K on Aminoapps.com
Stretch: Scythe
This is photo is the exact inspiration for Stretch's weapon. Though in my mind's eye I see it as a little slimmer/smaller to mimic a real world scythe's proportions. The blade is still long and curving, the blaster's "breath" being that sharp blade. Traditionally scythes are not weapons, they are farm tools, but damn if they aren't efficient at cutting things down to size (Karmic retribution anyone?).
Stretch looks like a Papyrus so his weapon is hand-held, but his personality is of a Sans. This weapon has a long reach and can keep an enemy at bay. Stretch doesn't like to fight but he can swing his weapon around like it's nothing.
~Photo by buttercupsticksntricks here on tumblr.
Red: Chain Whip/Flail
Red is a Sans so he fights from afar. The end of his flail has a curved and sharpened bone instead of the barb shown in the picture. This weapon is mostly used for piercing armor, tripping up an enemy, or tangling them in the chains so they can be hauled in to be dispatched by a bone attack. Retreating opponents can also be caught and strung up for interrogation.
~Photo from u/griff-mac on Reddit
Edge: Rapier
Edge brings the fight to you with his rapier. I see the basket to be like a rib cage to protect his hand. In real world applications, a rapier is generally a side arm and is usually complimented with a buckler, dagger, or another sword. However, Edge uses this light weapon to make fast, precise attacks to cut and puncture enemies to dust in Underfell.
Any off-hand assistance is summoned bones to deflect an attack or to send bone patterns at a number of opponents that would be too many to take with this single weapon.
~Photo from the Sabersmith
Black: Twin Dirks
Dirks are generally longer than your typical dagger, but shorter than a sword. Black fights up close and personal with one of these bad boys in each hand. I would be remiss if the handle wasn't bone of course but the blade is just as sturdy and flat as the photo.
Black fights with two hands like Blue does with his two-handed hammer. But his weapon is a blade like Edge's.
~Photo from BladeMaster
Mutt: Long Bow
Mutt falls into the long range fighting category with his fellow Sans type personalities. But unlike Sans who shoots hands free with a blaster. Mutt fires manually like a Papyrus would. Being his underground's hunter, the bow was an obvious choice for him.
If you take that skull on the top half and mimic it on the bottom half so they are symmetrical, that is what I see his bow looking like.
~Photo from u/griff-mac on Reddit.
And those are the inspiration photos for the boy's weapons! Thank you so much for the ask!
